DNA from Stonehenge burial reveals high-ranking female goldsmith

DNA analysis of 4,000-year-old remains at Stonehenge reveals the individual was a woman.

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This finding contradicts a 200-year-old assumption that the burial belonged to a man.

The deceased was likely a high-ranking goldsmith in Bronze Age society.

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